From Zhuangzi: “The perfect man has no self; the spiritual man has no achievement.”
Tag Archives: selflessness
Quote of the day 12/12/25
From William James: “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
Quote of the day 11/07/25
From Socrates: “It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.”
Quote of the day 10/06/25
From Śāntideva: “But if, through seeking happiness, my deeds are wrong, no matter where I turn my steps, the knives of misery will cut me down, the wage and retribution of a sinful life.”
Quote of the day 09/18/25
From Xenophon: “There is a deep—and usually frustrated—desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more.”
Quote of the day 04/09/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Though the self, the selfish self, must disappear, emotion remains and this emotion is love.”
Quote of the day 01/04/25
From William Blake: “The most sublime act is to set another before you.”
Quote of the day 12/31/24
From William Blake: “Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.”
Quote of the day 12/01/24
From Lao Tzu: “Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.”
Quote of the day 10/24/24
From Desiderius Erasmus: “And so when the whole man will be outside himself, and happy for no reason except that he is so outside himself, he will enjoy some of the ineffable share in the supreme good which draws everything into itself.”
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